It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
Whosoever plants a tree, Winks at immortality.
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
I cannot abide being bored.
This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
